Marin, Louis, 1931- Food for thought / [electronic resource] / Louis Marin ; translated, with an afterword, by Mette Hjort.. — Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, c1989.. — xxi, 273 p. : : ill. ; 24 cm. — (Parallax : re-visions of culture and society). - Parallax (Baltimore, Md.) .
Translation of: La parole mangée et autres essais théologico-politiques. Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 265-268.
1. The Body of the Divinity Captured by Signs -- 2. "Donkey-Skin," or Orality -- 3. Little Butterpot, or the Spell of the Voice -- 4. The Fabulous Animal -- 5. "The Reason of the Strongest Is Always the Best" -- 6. Utopic Rabelaisian Bodies -- 7. Theoretical Aperitif -- 8. Roast Blood Sausage, or the Crush of Performatives -- 9. Robert Sauce -- 10. Recipes of Power -- 11. Stew and Roast, or the Mastery of Discourse and the Illusions of Eros -- 12. Butcher's Meat and Game, or the Culinary Sign within Generalized Communication -- 13. The Portrait of the King's Glorious Body -- 14. The Pathetic Body and Its Doctor: The "Medical Diary of Louis XIV" -- Afterword: Portrait of the Translator.
Анотація: In this provocative volume, Louis Marin treats a subject to which some of the most exciting literary criticism has been devoted: the body as represented in text and image. From fairy tales to biblical narrative, from the divine body in the eucharist to the body of Louis XIV as described in his physicians' journals, Marin focuses on the peculiar relationship between verbal and oral functions - speaking and eating, boasting and gluttony, lying and cannibalism. Drawing on the methodologies of semiology, philosophy of language, and literary and art criticism, Marin explores works by Rabelais, La Fontaine, Perrault, and the Logic of Port-Royal. Throughout, he is concerned with the conceptualization of desire and pleasure, justice and force, natural violence and political power - and questions their ideological as well as their symbolic bases.